A year-old company called EQUO is out with its first line of products: Drinking straws made from grass, rice, coconut, sugarcane and coffee. And you can smell the ingredients and eat the rice straws: ...
WILLOWS, Calif. — CalFibre, a California-based bio-material company, is seeking $75 million in funding to acquire and reopen a factory to produce 300,000 tons per year of tree-free boards. The factory ...
The plant refines waste rice straw fibers, which have the same properties as typical wood-based MDF fibers but without added chemicals Site preparation is underway for the new CalPlant facility, which ...
From left: Prof. Mirjam Roeder (Aston University), Hon. Karla Adajar-Lajara (LGU-Laguna), Craig Jamieson (Straw Innovations), Dr. Nur Azura binti Adam (SEARCA), Lloyd Cameron (British Embassy Manila), ...
The Rice Straw to Biogas project is a collaboration between Straw Innovations, QUBE Renewables, the University of Southampton and the Supergen Bioenergy Hub based at Aston University (formerly based ...
Every harvest and milling season, rice straws—or dayami—are often discarded as waste in agricultural fields due to the lack of economic and technical means to process them. Some farmers resort to ...
Mulching the vegetable and fruit garden is critical this time of year if you want to conserve water and not weed. In some cases, mulching a large area can be costly. Using rice straw is an effective, ...
In some regions of Japan, this time of year marks the peak of the annual rice harvest season. Traditionally, Japanese farmers have reused leftover rice straw (“wara” in Japanese), a byproduct of the ...
MANILA, Philippines — A UK-based firm has launched a new rice straw biogas hub in Laguna, establishing a two-hectare facility designed to process 10,000 metric tons (MT) of the plant material annually ...